@Sacha – Thanks for sharing. The comments in the .emacs file help me as I set up my org mode instance. Question: when you used Lotus Notes, what was your workflow for work-related calendar items? Did you copy from Lotus Notes (without call-in details) into org mode so it showed up in the agenda? If yes, did you then have to refer to the original to dial into conference calls?

When I was on Lotus Notes, I used an internal script that someone else in IBM put together in order to convert appointments into iCal. That made it easier. I also sometimes created manual entries for important dates. Never quite got it fully integrated, though.

your config is an Org mode file with emacs lisp snipets. Do you have it called something like ‘starter-kit-sacha.org’ and then load it with (starter-kit-load “sacha”), or do you tangle out the elisp into a .el file?

Fixed the colour scheme by changing my share function to temporarily switch to a light-background scheme. Thanks for pointing that out!

609,304 bytes in my organizer.org file, probably because I haven’t archived old weekly reviews. Many notes become blog posts, so I use the Org archive function to stash those after publishing on my blog.

I’ve added short descriptions of my other files in the My files section of my Org configuration. I rediscovered quite a few files I’d forgotten! =) My main Org file has the following headings: Reference, Blog ideas, Stuff to watch out for, Projects, Weekly review, Monthly review, Snippets, Routines, Tasks, 2011, and 2012.

I’ve already taken some items from your recently published config. As you’ll see there are quite a few sacha prefixed functions in mine.

My literate config needs lots more annotation (as I get time) to actually explain the stuff I find most useful.

I also need to document how I’m using Howard’s Rheingold’s PLN idea of filtering RSS feeds inside Yahoo Pipes (from his book Net Smart) with Gnus virtual groups and Gwene.org. Combined with w3m using a tor privoxy proxy, I like the http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ idea of not being tracked by Facebook and other marketing companies while pulling the useful parts of the web into emacs.

I’m also fully incorporated Bernt Hansen’s GTD config, which is one of the most masterful I’ve seen.

It would eventually be nice to have a list of all the published starter kit instances, so we could borrow new Emacs 24 config items from each other.

Thank you for sharing this, your init/org file and the links you posted really helped me to get started with this, before this I couldn’t see the use of trying this and I really didn’t get how it worked in org. But now I’m working on making my init file literate as well, here‘s the HTML version (if you’re interested) of what I have so far.

I got a little hooked on it and actually went a little overboard, I’m trying to get (almost) all of my dotfiles (sources) in this format using a bunch of makefiles. It’s a nice excercise in Makefile, writing and configuration file management and I’m having lots of fun with it. And since this is the post that really got me started with it: Thanks!

Having a virtual machine image would be really cool, but impractical for me: We already struggle with disk-space for all the meteorological input data, so creating a virtual machine which needs another full copy of the input data would be a huge ordeal.

I try to keep close to published input data, though, and to document every step I do to process it for the models I use.

But CDE actually sounds pretty nice – though I prefer sharing sources. I want people to not just be able to redo what I did, but to be able to work on it. And for that they need the sources. But just being able to run the program is a nice first step. → went into my remember file.

Sorry for reacting to this slightly aged post, but for me, there is some pain there as the descriptions(as in describe-function) of objects defined in org-babel point to tangled file, not to the original. So unless I take care, I find myself editing the generated file, not the original source. I could (in fact, in few cases I did) some modifications of load-history variable at the end of the generated file, but I wonder if it noone else sees this as a problem, or if I miss something trivial/do something wrong.

Mmm… I use a quick shortcut to open my Sacha.org configuration file, so that’s why I don’t run into that – I don’t use describe-function, I open my Sacha.org file and use isearch. =) Maybe that would work for you?

Tomas Zellerin

Understood, I may try that. However, that means working specially with functions I defined myself.